Stocking



E. W. DECKER Sept; 13, 1932.

STOCKING Filed 0st. 20; 1931 Ellen \A/ DE'B er;

ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 13,1932

ELLENW. DECKER, on soU'rrI'onANoE, amn sia},

srooizmef My invention relates to improvements in stockings and more particularly to the means for the attachment of the garter to the welt or upper part of ladys silkstockings of sheer or fine knitted fabric.

The provision of means such as looped tapes or buttonholes on the garter welts of sheer fabric stockings for attachment of the garter is well known in the art, and one obect of my invention is to provide an improved formvof loop and the combination thereofwith button holes. A further object part of a stocking showing the garter welt and embodying my improved garter-attach ing means;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a garter welt showing a slightly modified form of the garter-attaching means;

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing another form of garter-attaching means with a legf encircling garter applied thereto;

Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views of the garter-attaching means on the inner surface of the welt and shown at two different stages in the manufacture of the final product;

Fi 6 is a detail view similar to Fig. 5 but s owing a modified form of the attaching means.

On the drawing the welts 1 are of usual form and are provided in the usual way at the upper extremities of the stockings 2 which have the usual back seams 3 in the 4- case of stockings of the full-fashioned type.

Referring to 1 to inclusiveg'itape loops 4 are attached to the. inner .isurfa'ce of the iwelt '1 at the upper extremity thereof so that the loops,-which are' given a half twist upon themselves as shown; project above 150 the edge 5 r of the stocking and may1'be=.con-

"venientlyfengaged' by the usual garterrclip '6 as shown at-Fig. '11: In order to provide alternative receiving means. for the garterclips 6 the loops 4 and the stocking welts 1 i have button holes 7 cut therein and these holes 7 are provided with button-hole-stitching 8 which may serve the double purpose of outlining the raw edges of the holes and :of providing a very strongandfpermanent connectionbetween {the loops 4 and the welt to take the pull of the garterx p Referringf'to Figs. 4 and: 5, after the stock- 'has been knit and 'while still a flatpiec'e offa-bric, th'eitla'pe loops are placed onthe 5 inn r surface "of the welt at the up'perle'dge thereof as shown in Fig. '4 and arepreferably secured to the knitted fabric by parallel lines of stitching 9, '1O to ;hol-d *them permanently -in -place'. The button -hole 7 '*is"70 then cut through both thicknesses of -tape and stocking welt and the button-'hole-stitch "ing 8'is then; applied. The back seamkof the stocking is then formed and the "stocking 'is degummed, dyed and finally dried so-as to "produce the finished stocking which is shrunkto a substantial extentfrom the dimensions of the flat fabric to which the loops were attached. The tape material of'which the loops 4t are ma'de, however; does 'n'ot shrink, andasa consequenceythe tape may 'be slightly puckered and the bu'tton-hole' opens 'up with the shrinking of v the stocking fabric'as is cle'arlyshownin Fig. 5.

' 7 From the foregoingitw'll-loe understood that the loops 4: are made of a material that does not shrinkwhenthe stocking isrsub jected to the usual degumming; dyeing and drying process, and itwill: be. readily jap- --preciated that the :usualW'shrinkageof the knitted fabric during this processresultsin an attachment of the parts concerned having the characteristic feature that the knitted fabric must be stretched to some extent before tension is transmitted to .the loop.

Fig. 4 shows the parts before shrinking of the knitted fabric and Fig-5 shows the parts after the shrinking has taken place;

It will be readily apparent that by reason of the. secure attachment of the tapes 2 to the welt 1, by the lines of stitching 9, and by button-hole stitching the pull of the garter will be evenly distributed along; both 7 sides of the button-hole and becaus 1 a puckered, I unstretched condition of the tapes 4 due to shrinkage of-th'e stockin fab I 3 i v to rality of garter-receiving members of substantially unshrinkable material and stitching attaching said members to the stocking with said members in a slightly puckered or unstretched condition so as to be under tento the pull of the garter, so as to properly distribute the garter pull, and having button-holes formed in said garter-receiving members.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification. V

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ric, the pull of the garter upon the tapes is v v p first taken up by the tape itself until 'the tape is under tension and the button hole,

is drawn together and the pullis' evenly distributedto thegwelt-itselfglhe tapes 4- having been, dyed with the stocking, the

colorand-appearance of ;the finishedstockleg-encircling bandll which is preferably of contemplated embodying my invention, and

the bestgmethod, of producing the finished article I: desireto bein no way limited-to the elasticmaterialand has buckles-orclasps' 12 ,1 L, p v for .the attachment ther eofj around the leg i -for usewith, or in lieu of the usualgarters fi; Q j 1 {Although the drawing and abovespecificaa p I tion disclose the best mode which'I haye f details of such disclosure for in the further practical application of my invention, many changes;may-1be made in'thedetails of the v construction and method, as circumstances r require or, experience suggests, without dej parting from the spiritof the invention within the scope of the appended claims.

1; A stocking of shrinkable material hay v ing garter attaching means comprisinga plu- Y rality-of garter-receiving members of subdistribute the garter pull. 1 I

2. A stocking ofshrinkable materialihavi irig garter attachingmeans comprising aplut sion only when the stocking is stretched due 7. 

